For more than three decades, the women's movement and its scholars have exhaustively studied women's complex history, roles, and struggles. In Manhood in America: A Cultural History, Fourth Edition, author Michael Kimmel argues that it is time for men to rediscover their own evolution. Drawing on
a myriad of sources, he demonstrates that American men have been eternally frustrated by their efforts to keep up with constantly changing standards. Kimmel contends that men must follow the lead of the women's movement; it is only by mining their past for its best qualities and worst excesses that
men will free themselves from the constraints of the masculine ideal.
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: THE MAKING OF THE SELF-MADE MAN IN AMERICA, 1776-1865
1. The Birth of the Self-Made Man
2. Born to Run: Self-Control and Fantasies of Escape
Part II: THE UNMAKING OF THE SELF-MADE MAN AT THE TURN OF THE
CENTURY
3. Men at Work: Captains of Industry, White Collars, and the Faceless Crowd
4. Playing for Keeps: Masculinity as Recreation and the Re-Creation of Masculinity
5. A Room of His Own: Socializing the New Man
Part III: THE NEW MAN IN A NEW CENTURY, 1920-1950
6. Muscles,
Money, and the M--F Test: Measuring Masculinity Between the Wars
7. "Temporary About Myself": White-Collar Conformists and Suburban Playboys, 1945-1960
Part IV: THE CONTEMPORARY "CRISIS" OF MASCULINITY
8. The Masculine Mystique
9. Wimps, Whiners, and Weekend Warriors: The
Contemporary Crisis of Masculinity and Beyond
10. From Anxiety to Anger Since the 1990s: The "Self-Made Man" Becomes "Angry White Men"
Epilogue
Notes
Index
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Michael Kimmel is Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. A leading researcher and writer on gender and men and masculinity, he is the author of numerous books and articles, including The Gendered Society, Sixth Edition (OUP, 2016), The Gendered Society
Reader, Sixth Edition (with Amy Aronson, OUP, 2016), and Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men (2009).
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